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Purpose of the Research

Research Findings

  • Shaw and Mckay studied crime patterns in Chicago in the early 1900s
  • Identify causes of high rate of delinquency in urban areas and help reform community
  • Outer Zones
  • Communities had a shared system of values, norms
  • Engaged in conventional activities
  • contained delinquency
  • Inner Zone
  • Extreme diversity, mixed messages
  • Subculture adopts values in oppostion to conventional values

Understanding Deviance

  • Behavior or belief that violates social norms
  • Socially constructed

Cultural Deviance Theory

What is Cultural Deviance Theory?

  • Relative to time, space and culture
  • The theory states that individuals are not responsible for their deviance as much as the community in which they reside in

How did Shaw & McKay Conduct the Research?

Clifford Shaw

Henry Mckay

  • Collection of autobiographies of juvenile delinquents
  • Research on geographical distribution of delinquents
  • Creation of CAP
  • Born in 1899 in South Dakota?
  • Died in 1980
  • American Sociologist who attended University of Chicago
  • Burgess Model

References

  • Snodgrass, John. (1976, January). Clifford R. Shaw & Henry D. McKay: Chicago Criminologists. Retrieved from: https://www.academia.edu/11745452/Shaw_and_McKay_Chicago_Criminologists
  • Shaw, Clifford & McKay, Henry. (1942). Differential Systems of Values. Retrieved from: https://www.dropbox.com/s/4jevzbgnbw4yf18/Shaw_mckay_Differential.pdf?dl=0
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